Kanye West Pays $180K for Watch With His Own Image

While rap artists are known for their flashy and ostentatious jewelry,
Kanye West has taken his adornment to new heights. After appearing with a $300,000 chain and charm featuring the Egyptian god Horus and a four-finger pyramid ring at the BET Awards last summer, West has recently been seen around town wearing a custom-made yellow gold
Tiret watch adorned with his own face.
The watch, which reportedly set West back $180,000, is encrusted with 8 carats of yellow, black, brown and white diamonds in the shape of his own glasses-clad face. According to reports, watchmaker Tiret took more than five months to create the dial of the watch itself, which is made of a gold-colored mother-of-pearl.
Following West's lead, other entertainers have also begun to seek out Tiret's custom made watches. Last month, singer Usher commissioned the Damon Dash-owned New York luxury watch company to create a one-of-a-kind timepiece with his face on it for a cool $250,000.
Earlier this week, it was reported that West asked artist George Condo to design the controversial first album cover for 'My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy' in hopes it would be "
banned."
West's next venture will be the highly anticipated 'Watch the Throne,' a collaborative album with
Jay-Z, which was to be
released either this week or on March 1.
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Why aren't Con-Ye and Jay bird out funding education and helping the distressed,lost, young blk men 15-25 of this country. they shout N... all day on the street corner with no aspirations of a future, dropped out of high school and just looking to get a young girl pregnant to feel important and like... a man?
Didn't they listen to the President's terrific speech yesterday?
Shameful, selfish and saddening...both!!
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Like the old saying goes, a fool and his money are soon parted.
Kayne has an ego the size of Texas, this surely proves it.
I bet Kayne has photos of himself all over his house too.
He should be saving his money, pretty soon all of the teenages that buys his crap, will be grown enough to wonder why they were buying Kaynes 'music' in the first place.
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See, just when I actually start to buy the other Kanye article I just wrote that his self-centeredness is just a joke, I read something like this....
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